Vaccinating. Two Centuries and Beyond!

Originally from Burgos, she graduated in Pharmacy from the University of Salamanca and completed a master's degree in the pharmaceutical industry in Madrid, a sector in which she has worked for several years holding several positions. She is currently a consultant in regulatory intelligence in healthcare. She has a diploma in Public Health from the Spanish National School of Health and also holds a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and a Postgraduate Degree in Health Economics and Outcomes Research. She is a member of the NGO Farmamundi, as well as its delegate for Castile and León, and she leads the Madrid chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA). She loves languages and health communication, excelling in several articles and conferences. She is co-author, with Luis Marcos, of three books: Vacunando (Salamanca University Press), Antibióticos vs bacterias (Larousse) and Lo que no te esperas del sexo. Una cita con las infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) (Menoscuarto).

Born in Salamanca, he graduated in Pharmacy from the University of Salamanca and completed a master's degree in the pharmaceutical industry in Madrid, a sector in which he worked for several years. He currently works as a community pharmacist in Salamanca, with a special focus on compounding, an over century-long family tradition. He has just published Hygeia. The Girl Who Wanted to Heal / Hygea. La niña que quería curar (Valnera Ediciones), his first children's (and bilingual) book.

He is a board member of the Spanish Society of Individualized Medicine (LASEMI). Besides his profession, his great passions are history, comics, and scientific dissemination. He is also a delegate of the Spanish Association of Pharmacists of Letters and Arts (AEFLA), a member of the NGO Farmamundi, the Spanish Society of Clinical, Family, and Community Pharmacy (SEFAC), and a teacher.

He is the creator, along with illustrator Ansola, of the saga Epopeya farmacéutica (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca), which currently has two volumes: Epopeya farmacéutica. La farmacia en el mundo antiguo and Epopeya farmacéutica. La farmacia en la Edad Media.

Both authors, also with Ansola as the illustrator, have published Antibióticos vs bacterias. De la resistencia al contraataque (Larousse) and Lo que no te esperas del sexo. Una cita con las infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) (Menoscuarto Ediciones). Both authors are also founders of the @vacunando science outreach project, which combines the book, a free traveling exhibition, a board game, an active social media presence, and educational conferences and talks in primary and secondary schools. Currently, the @vacunando project is supported by several institutions and backed by the "la Caixa" Foundation. Raquel and Luis are also co-founders of the #DivulgaSalamanca (@DivulgaSalamanc) platform. Their work has been recognized with several awards: Academy of Pharmacy of Castilla y León, I Premio Innovación Social y ODS del Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Farmacéuticos, Premio INDEPF, and Winner of the IV Premios #ReConocidos del Sector Sanitario for Antibióticos vs Bacterias for their efforts in disseminating information about antibiotic resistance.

Well known cartoonist from Laredo, Cantabria. Author of the daily cartoon in the newspaper El Diario Montañes since 2008. He has a sarcastic and witty sense of humour.